#mobile specs

[goblinratcreacher]

Was thinking about conjoined twin reptiles lately, and it made me think about how some of my fictional species might be affected by being born/hatched with body differences. Here are some examples of how one of my sophonts, Thitherians, might appear if they hatch as conjoined twins. Obviously, they vary based on what stage of development they began to separate. I didn't include it the physical drawing, but the later separation pair (pictured in the second image) would likely have similar balance/posture issues as the "two headed" pair in the first image, and thus would likely benefit from a similar mobility aid. The middle pair of fused legs may also be weakened, depending on their specific anatomy, and so they may also benefit from a or a pair of custom braces for added support. (Note, the mobility aid pictured in the first image on the left is still being developed and has changed to have 3 wheels since I drew it here several days ago.)

[gundamfight]

[voidoffline]

Sigh… the deep want and desire to have some sort of mobility aid so I can go out places and hang out with my friends and just exist in public areas. Hang out with my friends as teenagers are supposed to do. Socialize and have fun.

Yet the arrow shooting down those wants and desires as I ask and ask and am told every time to wait for the words of a doctor. Told to wait months and months thinking maybe, maybe this time I will know what’s wrong with me, or at least someone will go ‘Yeah, you need a mobility aid’ instead of ‘no no, wait to see what another doctor/specialist says.’ Over and over.

Oh to be a disabled person with a mobility aid. That’s the dream, right there. A dream that feels so fucking far away…

[mutodaes]

Harpy wingchairs! I recently began wondering how a species with ambulatory wings would handle wheelchairs, especially if the wings are mostly made of membranous tissue. My first couple drafts were....... bad. The poor harpy would topple over trying to use it. So I went back to the drawing board and came up with this! Supported by a long wooden beam held in place by a leather strap, Harpy wingchairs feature four large wheels, interconnected by various crossbeams. For added stability and wing safety, the wings are placed in dedicated wooden sleeves that keep the wing elevated. The bodypiece of the wingchair is made of rigid leather, with holes left on either side so the Harpy's arms can move freely. A lot of Harpies with wingchairs will have their leather seats altered to show personality ^^

[xinyuehui]

[ENG] Love and Deepspace PC tutorial

When I wrote the original tutorial, I didn't notice the emulator was available in English too! It can be downloaded on their official website.

https://www.mumuplayer.com/en/games/simulation/love-and-deepspace-on-pc.html

Mumu is an officially licensed emulator for Love and Deepspace. What the emulator does essentially is to host the game on a computer. Other games can also run on this emulator, such as MLQC, Nikki series, Arknights, Genshin etc...

Availability: Windows, Mac

Recommended configuration: CPU 4-core + RAM 4G+ System i5+ Graphics Card GTX750Ti+

Game size: 20-30 GB

The instructions on the website appears to be quite clear, I am assuming it's more or less the same as the Chinese one. I suggest looking up if your computer supports VT first before downloading the emulator.

It should be fairly straight forward once VT is enabled in BIOS. If the instructions on the mumu website is unclear, find a tutorial on google/youtube for your PC type, try looking up "how to enable virtualization in bios".

Any questions feel free to drop me an ask with images ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ •́ ˵ ) ✧

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[themogaidragon]

Gay, Cupiosexual, Transmasc, Disabled Cane and Cruch User Pride Flag

PT: Gay, Cupiosexual, Transmasc, Disabled Cane and Cruch User Pride Flag /END PT

ID: a flag with eight horizontal lines, the two middle ones being smaller. Their colours are, from top to bottom, dark orange, orange, pastel orange, grey, yellowish white, pastel green, dark green and purple. In the center of the flag is a symbol of a cane and a crutch, diagonally superimposed, colored with the colors of the disability flag. END ID

ID: the symbol of crutch in black, isolated on a transparent background. END ID

ID: the symbol of crutch in black, isolated on a transparent background. END ID

ID: the symbol of the cane and crutch with the colours of the disability flag, isolated, on a transparent background. END ID

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE NIGHT GUEST by Hildur Knútsdóttir.

Sticking with the insomnia-flavored tiny horror theme (and also, apparently, the Deeply Fucked Up Bright Pink Books Published By Tor theme *side eyes JUST LIKE HOME*).

I watched (Zoomed) a conversation between Mary Robinette Kowal and Hildur on the day the book came out, and it was really interesting! Plus I am SO susceptible to Buying Books Impulsively Because I Think The Author Is Neat (*other side eyes unintentional Columbus Book Festival haul*), so I picked up a copy when Bookshop did a coupon for it.

I'm only a few chapters in, but so far I'm very intrigued! It's starting as a tense little mystery about Why Is She Always Exhausted When She Wakes Up and so far medical professionals have Found Nothing Wrong, which she knows is bullshit but can't solve (the exhaustion and the resignation about it are uh. too real. it's a very real book). The suspense and the tension are already ratcheting up, and the chapters are very bite-size and readable! Will report back a final verdict when I'm done!!

(Side note: it comes with apparently a massive content warning re: animal death/harm, which, per the Zoom conversation, does not fuck up Icelandic readers like it tends to fuck up American readers?? Specifics are all over Goodreads, so check there first if that's a heads up you need!)

[harrowharkwife]

🚨🚨🚨 uh oh clown alert!

listen. listen to me. buck is going to win the lottery in the 6b finale "pay it forward" and then give all of it to his friends and family. possibly via anonymous "angel donation?"

and i can prove it too - spec under the cut!

these are all from 6a&6b episode transcripts. opening and closing a season with "let the games begin" and "pay it forward" can't be a coincidence! and we know hen filled out lottery tickets for everyone in the firehouse, so there's a ticket with buck's name on it that's already been played.

maddie's joked with buck twice now this season about buying lottery tickets- the second time, she told him he should play the lottery because he "got so lucky," referring to him surviving the lightning strike.

pre-lightning, we had buck telling hen in cursed that he was "having a run of bad luck" but that it would "turn around tomorrow," in reference to a non-anonymous DONATION (!!!) not going as planned.

what if the lightning, cleansing fire that it off symbolizes, basically "burned through" the rest of his bad luck, clearing the way for one helluva lucky streak?

we got the buckley diaz family joking that he might "gain more powers" as he "gets stronger." sure, math helps with poker i guess, but you know what else would help? luck.

the symbolism of buck, someone conceived for the express purpose of making a bone marrow donation he had zero say in, someone who only recently donated sperm (partially) because he felt, in his own words, like he "couldn't say no," receiving an unexpected windfall of cash, and having the freedom and the privacy to make financial donations on his own terms, of his own free will, with zero outside pressure, as opposed to making organ/tissue donations out of obligation? SO poetic.

he's not the guy who tries to fix things, anymore- he knows his own worth, and he knows he's loved, and he no longer values himself solely on what he can do for others. he doesn't think he has to earn people's love, anymore- he knows his family loves him anyway. but he'll always be buck. he'll always want to help. and there's a massive difference between helping someone just because you want to, and trying to fix everything for someone because you've convinced yourself it's what you have to do in order for them to love you back.

so: buck wins the lottery. he regifts all of it to the people in his life, quite literally paying it forward, echoing athena and hen's conversation in 911 what's your fantasy about winning the lottery and giving it all away "to people" in your community, rather than to charities. maybe some of it's anonymous, maybe some of it isn't- realistically, if everyone in the 118 suddenly gets anonymous checks in the mail, they're going to figure out it's buck eventually. but it's the spirit of the thing.

they were filming at a cruise ship dock for the finale- buck gifts bobby and athena tickets to a cruise, to replace the honeymoon cruise they missed. he probably makes a donation to bobby's AA chapter.

we know madney get in trouble with the IRS in 6x15 death and taxes, so maybe he helps them out of that jam. pays off their mortgage, helps with the renovation costs, maybe chips in towards a wedding celebration.

maybe he pays off hen's med school loans, or makes a donation to help karen's coworkers injured in the explosion, maybe a recurring monthly stipend they can use to buy fun toys for any new foster kids, something like that.

maybe he's moving in with eddie anyway, so he buys out the rest of his lease from his landlord and transfers the apartment to taylor, on the SOLE condition that she CANNOT run a news story that he's the guy who won the lottery. (i despise taylor just as much as the next girl, believe me, but megan west was on the fox lot for a hot minute, so if it ends up being for 911 and not some other show, then, well, here we are.) he did admittedly put her in a real shit situation, re: her lease and all the move-in drama. this might be a nice way of clearing the air. fucking with someone's living situation is a tremendously shitty thing to do, and i think he knows that. plus, it would make for a good parallel to abby leaving buck to housesit her place indefinitely with zero closure, and also, i just hate the loft and want it gone forever, sorry!

college fund and surfing lessons for chris, obvs.

vegas couples' trip for him and eddie.

which brings me to the connor and kameron of it all- i remember seeing a (very blurry, zero context) behind the scenes picture that looked like it MIGHT have *MAYBE*, *POSSIBLY* been buck talking to a pregnant woman in his loft. and connor's been acting real shady. and 6x13 mixed feelings had entirely too many lines about "blaming someone else for lies YOU told" re: fathers and sons. soooo... i think there's a fair chance connor could flake on kameron and leave her last-minute. he thought he wanted to be a dad, but he wasn't actually ready. or maybe he thought he'd be okay with using a sperm donor, but turns out he's not. or maybe he just liked the idea of being able to give kameron what she wanted, but he realizes it's not actually what he wants for himself. something like that. (side note: this would be SUCH a good opportunity to contrast him with buck and highlight all buck's character growth!) and he skips town- in the end, he's the one who winds up "being a father and walking away."

but buck has a chance to draw a real boundary, here! he's not this baby's dad, and he knows that. maybe kameron's ready and willing to take on being a single mom. buck already has his own family, with eddie and chris. he's not this baby's dad, because he's a dad already. but he *is* "responsible for the creation of new life," as he put it, and we heard an awful lot of talk from oliver about buck "owning his choices" and taking responsibility for them re: this plotline. so, boundaries: he's not the dad, just a friend who wants to help- he knows firsthand from eddie how hard single parenting can be, and connor taking off was a real asshole move, and kameron is a grown woman perfectly capable of raising this kid on her own, and she really wants to be a mom, but she DID get left in the lurch through no fault of her own, and that's not fair to her. so buck offers to set up a standing payment from his lottery winnings to help her cover childcare expenses and whatnot, at least while she finds her footing and tries to work some kind of formal divorce agreement out with connor, if not in perpetuity. (hell, maybe she's who he gives the loft to, not taylor!) but he helps her in some way- a sperm donation he was always sorta on the fence about, paired with a financial donation that he's certain is the right choice, and one he wants to make. standing by his past choices, honoring them, and helping nurture them.

(besides, he's saving on rent anyway, now that he's moving into the diaz house.)

maybe kameron, as a token of gratitude towards buck for helping her fulfill her dream of having a child, as a gesture of reciprocity for his assisted-reproduction donation, offers a parting quip of "well, buck, if you and your boyfriend are ever looking for a surrogate or an egg donor, you know who to call. i'd love to return the favor!" as her own way of paying it forward.

anyway, the point is this: in a season about games and money and paper trails and gambling and luck and winning and lottery tickets, i'd bet good money that we're gonna see buck win the lottery this season. how he'll actually wind up spending the money is just a guess on my part, but the actual lottery bit itself? that much i'm sure of!

[wolfsbaneandthistle]

Image ID: A scene full several speculative aliens flying and hunting another alien. Most of the aliens are large pack hunters. They have a dragonfly-like body plan, mantis-like arms, and a long neck and head. On their backs are Zoronxie aliens, which are bipedal and raptor-like with a long tail, wings, and a segmented neck. Together they work to herd a massive-whale like creature. Only it’s head fits into frame as the dragonflies and Zoronxie swarm around it. End ID

Hartiklk are some of the largest flying animals on Zornxia, feeding almost entirely on the microscopic life that floats through the dense atmosphere. On the edge of being to heavy to fly, there is nothing that dares hunt a full grown Hartiklk.

… With the exception of a group of Karash that live along the sunrise areas of the ocean. These pack hunters, equipped with four wings that can beat both individually and in tandem, are among the best hunters in the skies. But what tips the hunt in their favor is the group of Zoronxie accompanying them. Zoronxie, the sapient species native to Zornxia, are more than able to hop onto the back of the Hartiklk and help subdue it.

It should be said that the relationship between the Zoronxie and the Karash hunters can’t be compared to that of humans and dogs. Zoronxie don’t put much stock in domesticating animals, and so these Karash are as wild as wolves. Their allowance towards the Zoronxie hunter even might be compared to that of wolves and ravens.

Conlang and biology notes under the cut :)

Zoronxie have upper jaws within their heads which they use for speech, and a pair of lower jaws that they use for eating. You can see how exaggerated the Karash’s jaws are in the image :). The face leads to the lungs, but has no connection to the stomach. The lower jaws are the opposite.

Hartiklk is pronounced har .t i /klk with both an upper jaw click (.t) and upper snap (/klk)). Karash and Zoronxie are both pronounced without any jaw syllables, but for two different reasons. Karash is just. That way anyways, but the word for Zoronxie is actually an adaptation from the Galactic Standardized/Enithian Standardized. That itself was an adaptation from whatever the original word for the species was.

Also. Hartiklk gets translated into Arabic as حوت, and Karash gets translated into يعسوب . Which then gets translated to ‘whale’ and ‘dragonfly’ in English. If you can tell. If anyone wants to, please correct me on the Arabic. Karash are VERY dragonfly-esc. They fly almost the same way, maybe with a little bit of hummingbird in there.

Also you can see how the Hartiklk’s ceramic-like sections on its face have seperations for an actual mouth section. Which is super unlike the Karash and Zoronxie faces, which only have additional nostril equivalents that mimic a mouth. Both Karash and Zoronxie, as kind of mentioned before, have seperate arm-like limbs that are the actual mouths.

But Hartiklk actually kind of fuse the mouth limbs into the head, so they can have a super wide mouth for eating microbes :). But that makes their nostrils and lungs really fucked up. The intake is pretty normal (the lines in the ceramic section above the mouth) but instead of having the lungs in the neck and breathing out of the same section the breath in with, Hartiklk have lungs only within the head, and they exhale with a section behind the ceramic plate that houses their eye.

Also something something speargun. Don’t worry about it. Did you enjoy my incomprehensible ramblings.

[nikkiissleepy]

so far i have heard nothing good about infinity nikki on mobile

[herdecisions]

Just finished my first run playing the game touchstarved and i keep comparing it to the arcana lmao rip. I like it tho

[gundamfight]

[queen-scribbles]

I’m down to two options for Arkady’s surname but I can’t decide. XD

One is me being nerdy about the Allegiance novel/501st stormtroopers again(Marcrosse) and one is being a word nerd(Mere).

[mutodaes]

REALLY cool idea for wheelchairs in advanced tech settings :O

[incoherentbabblings]

Been on the phone with Vodafone six times in as many weeks trying to get Broadband established in my new flat and finally... finally. May have it sorted.

On Thursday.

[kristiani13]

Spec ops....

He's cool